flex custom events bubbling - apache-flex

Dear Richard Szalay,
i go through your answers regarding bubbling, i want explore bubbling more.
Please see my sample below
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" xmlns:view="com.view.*" >
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import com.events.ImgLoaded;
private function loadedd(evt:ImgLoaded):void{
trace("test")
evt.stopImmediatePropagation();
}
private function panelClickHandler(evt:Event):void{
trace("panel");
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:VBox>
<mx:Panel click="panelClickHandler(event)">
<view:Load imgLoad="loadedd(event)"/>
</mx:Panel>
</mx:VBox>
</mx:Application>
In my custom event class i set bubbling=true, cancelable=true
I can understand from previous answer that bubbling only affects UI components; events fired from custom classes will not bubble, even if the bubbles argument is set to true.
My question is how can i prevent panelClickHandler function got fired when i click button in the "Load" (custom component)??
please explain bubbling with good example ( like to have with custom event classes)?

I assume your first language isn't english and at any rate I am not sure I fully understand you, but what I think you are asking for is how to allow for a click in the view:load from firing the click handler on the panel.
What you need is to set up an event listener for a click on the view:load component, and stopPropagation from there. That will prevent the click handler on the panel from firing. Example:
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" xmlns:view="com.view.*" >
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import com.events.ImgLoaded;
private function loadedd(evt:ImgLoaded):void{
trace("test")
evt.stopImmediatePropagation();
}
private function panelClickHandler(evt:Event):void{
trace("panel");
}
private function load_clickHandler ( e:MouseEvent ) : void
{
e.stopPropagation;
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:VBox>
<mx:Panel click="panelClickHandler(event)">
<view:Load imgLoad="loadedd(event)" click="load_clickHandler(event)"/>
</mx:Panel>
</mx:VBox>
</mx:Application>

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Problem with an Event in a Custom Component

I'm just getting started with custom events in a custom component. And I don't quite have the hang of it, yet.
I've got a component with a button in it. When it's clicked, I want to call a function in the main app.
Custom Component:
<mx:Panel xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute" >
<mx:Metadata>
[Event(name="goClick", type="mx.events.Event")]
</mx:Metadata>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private function onButtonClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
dispatchEvent(new Event("goClick"));
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Button id="myGoButton" label="Go"
click="onButtonClickHandler(MouseEvent)" />
</mx:Panel>
Main App:
<myFolder:MyComponent
goClick="MyCoolFunction()">
Unfortunately, I'm doing something wrong. It says that the Event type is unavailable. What do I need to change or add? My guess is that I need to declare goClick in some way?
Thank you!
-Laxmidi
No such class as mx.events.Event unless you created one. Change that to flash.events.Event and you'll be good to go.
If you did create an 'mx.events.Event" class, make sure that your dispatch event is create an instance of your custom class and not the flash.events.Event.

how to show a tooltip on a disabled control?

I'm displaying a list of buttons, some of which might be disabled. I need to show a tooltip on the disabled buttons with an explanation of why it's disabled, but it seems I can't disable the button without disabling the tooltip. Is there a simple way around this?
Wrap the Button in a Group, and apply the toolTip to the group instead.
<s:Group toolTip="My toolTip">
<s:Button enabled="false"/>
</s:Group>
It's a bit ugly, but it works.
One way to do this is to override the enabled getter and setter to do what you want. So in my case, I still wanted most mouse events to fire, just not the click event.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Button buttonMode="true" click="handleClick(event)" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
public var data:Object;
private var _enabled:Boolean = true;
public override function get enabled():Boolean
{
return _enabled;
}
public override function set enabled(value:Boolean):void
{
_enabled = value;
invalidateDisplayList();
dispatchEvent(new Event("enabledChanged"));
invalidateSkinState();
}
protected function handleClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
if (!_enabled)
{
event.stopPropagation();
}
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
</s:Button>
Since mouse events now fire, the tooltips work again.
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.managers.ToolTipManager;
import mx.controls.ToolTip;
private var tooltip:ToolTip;
private var p:Point;
private function whyDisable():void
{
//calculate the button position , so that roll over shows the tooltip
p=new Point();
p=localToGlobal(new Point(btn.x,btn.y));
if(btn.enabled==false)
tooltip = ToolTipManager.createToolTip('Button is disabled',p.x+(btn.width/2),p.y-20,'errorTipAbove') as ToolTip;
else
tooltip=ToolTipManager.createToolTip('Button is enabled',p.x+(btn.width/2),p.y-20,'errorTipAbove') as ToolTip;
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:VBox height="100%" width="100%" horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle">
<mx:Button id="btn" label="Show Tooltip" buttonDown="trace('ankur')" autoRepeat="true" enabled="true" rollOver="whyDisable();" rollOut="{ToolTipManager.destroyToolTip(tooltip);}"/>
</mx:VBox>
</mx:Application>
Hi, this application works on the disabled button,I used ToolTipManager to do this,
i hope this works for you
have a gr8 time
Ankur Sharma
The best choice for me was to put a void label around and in front of the element. Then, if necessary, I set the element to disable and the tooltip works in the label. If not, I put sent the label to back. It works pretty well.
if (new MainListsAdmin(this.mainApp).temInvestimentoComAqueleTipo(t)) {
deletarGroupInto.setTooltip(new Tooltip("Há investimentos vinculados a Tipo de Investimento.\nDeleção bloqueada."));
this.deletarButton.setDisable(true);
}else{
deletarGroupInto.toBack();
}
You will need to use the ToolTipManager class to create and destroy the tool tips manually.
This article should give you all the info you need to accomplish this:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf60d65-7ff6.html

Why wouldn't a flex remoteobject be able to work within a custom component?

Please enlighten this flex noob. I have a remoteobject within my main.mxml. I can call a function on the service from an init() function on my main.mxml, and my java debugger triggers a breakpoint. When I move the remoteobject declaration and function call into a custom component (that is declared within main.mxml), the remote function on java-side no longer gets called, no breakpoints triggered, no errors, silence.
How could this be? No spelling errors, or anything like that. What can I do to figure it out?
mxml code:
&#060 mx:RemoteObject id="myService"
destination="remoteService"
endpoint="${Application.application.home}/messagebroker/amf" &#062
&#060 /mx:RemoteObject &#062
function call is just 'myService.getlist();'
when I move it to a custom component, I import mx.core.Application; so the compiler doesn't yell
my child component: child.mxml
<mx:Panel xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" creationComplete="init()" >
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.core.Application;
public function init():void {
helloWorld.sayHello();
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:RemoteObject id="helloWorld" destination="helloService" endpoint="$(Application.application.home}/messagebroker/amf" />
<mx:Label text="{helloWorld.sayHello.lastResult}" />
</mx:Panel>
my main.mxml:
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" creationComplete="init()" xmlns:test="main.flex.*" >
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
[Bindable]
public var home:String;
[Bindable]
public var uName:String;
public function init():void {
//passed in by wrapper html
home = Application.application.parameters.appHome;
uName = Application.application.parameters.uName;
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<test:child />
</mx:Application>
The child components are calling creationComplete before the parent (so home is null). A solution is to throw an event (like InitDataCompleted) from the parent after you read the data, and in the child components listen for this event (so don't rely on creationcomplete in the child).
However more important than that is how can you diagnose in future this kind of problems. A simple tool like a proxy (eg Charles) should help.
For your endpoint value you've got
endpoint="$(Application.application.home}/messagebroker/amf"
Why are you using $( before Application.application... This should be a { as in:
endpoint="{Application.application.home}/messagebroker/amf"

flex spark buttonbar : how to determine which button in mouseOver event

re: spark.components.ButtonBar
In the spark ButtonBar's mouseOver event, how do you determine which of the several buttons the mouse is hovering over? There is, of course, no selected index at this juncture. If it makes a difference, my ButtonBar is not defined in MXML but is instantiated in ActionScript and an ArrayList is assigned to the dataProvider property of my ButtonBar instance.
Thanks for the help.
There's no real easy/built-in way to do this if Flex 4, and I think that's a good thing. Instead, they give you access to the renderers via ElementExistenceEvent.RENDERER_ADD and ElementExistenceEvent.RENDERER_REMOVE, so you can look for all kinds of events on the children. Try this out:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application
xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">
<fx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.core.IVisualElement;
import spark.events.RendererExistenceEvent;
protected function rendererAddHandler(event:RendererExistenceEvent):void
{
var element:IVisualElement = event.renderer;
element.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, renderer_mouseMoveHandler);
}
protected function rendererRemoveHandler(event:RendererExistenceEvent):void
{
var element:IVisualElement = event.renderer;
element.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, renderer_mouseMoveHandler);
}
protected function renderer_mouseMoveHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace(event.currentTarget.label);
}
]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:ButtonBar id="buttonBar"
rendererAdd="rendererAddHandler(event)"
rendererRemove="rendererRemoveHandler(event)">
<s:dataProvider>
<mx:ArrayList source="[one, two, three, four]"/>
</s:dataProvider>
</s:ButtonBar>
</s:Application>
Hope that helps,
Lance
You can simply use the itemRollOver event of the spark buttonbar.

Calling Application.application.enable from a TitleWindow in a different mxml component

I have a Flex RIA App, and in the application tag there is a button when it's pressed calls upon a TitleWindow from another .mxml file, and sets
application.enable = false
That way the user can't use any of the components in the application, and still can use the components in the TitleWindow.
The problem is when the TitleWindow is closed I want it to restore the application back to
application.enable = true
Which enables the application once again. But I can't call that code from inside the TitleWindow .mxml
How can I do it?
Here is the Source:
Loja.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" width="585" height="450" xmlns:ns1="com.*">
<mx:Style source="theme/simplicitygray.css" />
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.managers.PopUpManager;
private var clientid = 0;
public function openWindow() : void
{
if (clientid == 0)
{
PopUpManager.createPopUp(this,Login,false);
application.enabled = false;
} else {
PopUpManager.createPopUp(this,Conta,false);
application.enabled = false;
}
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Panel x="10" y="40" width="565" height="400" layout="absolute">
</mx:Panel>
<mx:MenuBar x="10" y="10" width="565" height="22"></mx:MenuBar>
<mx:Button x="508" y="10" label="Aceder" click="openWindow();"/>
</mx:Application>
And one of the title windows. Once they are the same.
Login.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:TitleWindow xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" width="350" height="200" creationComplete="centerWindow()" showCloseButton="true" close="closeWindow()" title="Login">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.managers.PopUpManager;
public function centerWindow():void
{
PopUpManager.centerPopUp(this);
}
public function closeWindow():void
{
PopUpManager.removePopUp(this);
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
</mx:TitleWindow>
application is a static property of the Application class and can be called from the TitleWindow
public function closeWindow():void
{
PopUpManager.removePopUp(this);
Application.application.enabled = true;
}
BTW, There is another easier way to achieve the following:
That way the user cant use any of the components in the application, and still can use the components in the TitleWindow.
That is to use a modal popup. Set the third parameter of the createPopUp to true and that's it - you don't have to enable/disable the application manually: flex will take care of it.
PopUpManager.createPopUp(this,Login, true);
application will automatically become functional once you call removePopUp.
You can use custom events to enable this functionality, as described here.
Essentially, you set up a custom event in the class you are calling, then create a function that runs when the event is consumed. That way your 'Loja' will know when the 'Login' is done.

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